Geoff sez: “But with polls showing that 60% of Americans still blame the previous administration for the dismal economy, …”

I say: Then it’s a darn good thing that the previous administration is not up for election next year.

Here’s an interesting tidbit from the article in the poll you linked:

“The 59 percent of voters who now think Obama inherited the country’s economy is the lowest number the survey has found since September 2010. In April 2009, the McClatchy-Marist poll found that 80 percent of voters felt the country’s economic conditions were something Obama inherited.”

The spin isn’t working Mr. Berg. The Republicans could dig up the corpse of Tricky Dick Nixon and it would be Obama in a landslide of Reagan-esque proportions. Maybe you Dems should replace Obama with Tommy Lee Jones.

BO came to the 2008 presidency based on nothing but “Hope and Change” He had no record, no experience, and apparently, no clue on what he was getting himself into.

Three years later we have a record. It is a record that is so dismal that the president cannot base his reelecton campaign on it. Once again he is going to try to campaign as an outsider from Washington, blaming the previous administration as if he has not been President for the past three years. He is trying to blame a Republican house for the dismal economic recovery, neglecting the fact he had a Democrat house and senate for the first two years. He now talks about the “bitter partisanship” that’s chocking Washington, after telling his minions “Republicans can ride along with us – but they have to sit at the back of the bus”.

His stimulous initiative did pass, his health nitiative did pass, his Supreme Court nomonees did pass, and yet his approval ratings have sunk below 40%. Inneffective leadership, a lack of practical experience, and politics as usual are Barak Obama’s downfall.

The only thing that will get another Republican elected President is the contining self-sinking of Barak Obama.

Woody Allen used to say that 90% of life is just showing up. Looking at Rick Perry, I’d have to say that’s equally true for 99% of being Texas Governor. There was a time when I was respected, admired, and even envied by outsiders for being from Texas. That all changed under George Bush, and got worse under Perry.

TexDOT says that population in Texas is increasing by and average of 1,000 people per day and not all of them are illegals coming acros the border. Population in states like California, New York, Michigan, and other bastions of liberalism are declining steadily. Why? Perhaps the conservative polocies of the Texas administrations that have so embarassed you have also provided the climate to create jobs, limit government, and asked it’s citizens to be self reliant. Sounds to me like you would prefer to be elsewhere, and apparently there are many other declining states that would would welcome you with open arms.

It will end up that Perry can’t run on his record. He will have to use propaganda (lies and half-truths), attacks, and smoke-and-mirrors.

It must be nice to be able to run a political campaign where truth, facts, and reality are not essential. Currently, conservatives are “high on rhetoric, and low on reality,” and will believe the right wing propaganda without question. Nothing will happen in the US until more people figure this out; the republican party DOES NOT REPRESENT YOU.

WriterDude says:
August 16, 2011 at 10:24 am
It will end up that Perry can’t run on his record. He will have to use propaganda (lies and half-truths), attacks, and smoke-and-mirror
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You made a small error in your post, you misspelled the name in the first line above. It is properly spelled Obama. I am pretty sure you have already noticed that Obama ran on smoke and mirrors (hope and change), had no record of accomplishment, and through his proxies has been attacking anyone who disagrees since 2007.

Rick Perry brags about his good economic background when Texas would be just like the other 49 states if it wasn’t for oil and gas. You could put Palin in office down here and she could run it as well as Perry. Come on. Texas is still one of the worst for unemployment

None of you offer anything of substance to defend Obama. NOTHING! The guy has been in over his head from day 1 and you STILL blame Republicans for saying “no”. Because the governement works THAT simplistically right? Is he really that weak then? Well, yes he is…

Companies are not coming here from other states by the truck loads so they can zap up a bunch of minimum wage earners. Think it through.

If your best takes are comments like, “A Texan for President? How did it go last time?”, then which of the statistics Bob in Champions laid out do you think you belong in?

Seriously you guys are asked about specifics and you pull out the “all Republicans are racists cause they don’t like Obama” and then you even link Republicans to playing golf?
Umm Golf, campaigning, vacationing, and reading a teleprompter are all Obama is good at.

You are right about Obama being in over his head. He came in thinking that there would be people willing to work toward the common good and regardless of political ideology there would be progress at some point. Instead he found a bunch of right-wing politicians who are comitted to pushing all wealth to the top but who must cater to and mislead nuts to stay in office. Obama will come to grips with the fact that there is no compromise with those who have no goals which include ALL America. He will have to bite and scratch just as they do to get some measure of justice for those of us who work for a living and for those who can’t because some avaricious goon has to have a mansion and a yacht. George Bush had an advantage. He and his minions were sure of their mission when they arrived. They were to put as much government cash in the hands of their rich cronies as possible. The perpetration of this scheme was plodding until 9/11. At last a reason to start a war! Extreme profits for us, miserable debt and struggle for everyone else. And while we’re at it, we don’t want to give any of this back so let’s slash taxes on the way out. Criminal and obscene. You can just see Cheney grinning and rubbing his hands together like C. Montgomery Burns. Would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.

What the source said:
“… Many of the jobs created since 2009 pay only minimum wage, and Texas, along with Mississippi, has the highest percentage of minimum wage workers in the U.S….”
What you said:
“Texas is second only to Mississippi in the creation of minimum wage jobs.”

That’s not the same thing. I would normally expect a correction from most bloggers. Should I expect one from you anymore?

Congratulations on being chosen “chief decoy”. I hope you can live up to the long list of accomplished propagandists who came before you. I would have thought that Beck or Limbaugh still held the title but what do I know of Republican inside strategy.

Minimum wage jobs are better than NO JOBS.
How many has Obama created in the past two years???
I am no fan of Perry, and shudder at the thought of actually having to cast a vote for him as President. However, Obama is not a sane, logical, or responsible option….

So it doesn’t really matter who the nominee is. If Obama hasn’t lived up to all the hopey, changy nonsense that made delusional folks vote for him in 2008, those same independents will vote for the other candidate or stay home.

Also, I have a feeling that you are going to say that no Republican candidate can beat Obama. By the way, where are your blogs attacking Herman Cane? Or would that be considered racist?

Any person who uses childish, Sarah Palin words like “hopey” or “changy” in an adult discussion cannot be taken seriously. Especially if they see OTHERS as delusional while clearly a Palin and Perry adnmirer. Perry, like Bachmann and Palin, will at some point begin to show his true mentality and say outrageous, insensitive and moronic things. Herman Cain has already started to show his lack of understanding and it will get worse. That really doesn’t matter because pigs will fly before Republicans nominate a Black person. It is only a matter of time before Perry’s rare mix of corruption and simpicity is laid bare for all to see. I can’t wait to see Perry in a serious debate. Should be hilarious.

Blue, I am neither a Palin or Perry supporter. I like Cain. That being said I would vote for anyone but BHO. A stale cup of coffee would make a better president. Obama will have a tough time because he has no accomplishments to run on and no one is going to buy into “his plan for America”

Therein lies the problem, MC. When you say a “stale cup of coffe” YOU may only be exaggerating but many of your fellow Consevatives would vote for ANYBODY, without thought as to what it would do to the country, just to get rid of Obama. That kind of mentality if not checked could one day give us a President who will truly bring about the end of the nation. Herman “bills should be one page long” Cain is a token and is only tolerated as such and because he supports self-defeating ideals. A trait that whites love to see in Blacks. This is evidenced by every Black Republican I can think of. It is not so bad that a Black man have Conservative views but to be Black and Republican requires a mentality beyond Conservatism. He must first get past the idea that he is not wanted by the majority of those around him and is ridiculed by those who pretend that they do. Then there is the nagging reality that he will never actually get anywhere with these people because they do not see him as equal. Lastly, he must contend with the fact that he is held in contempt by most other minority people. This last one is more indistinct because I believe a certain amount of self-loathing is required to put oneself through the process.

I don’t understand the sentiments in politics these days. I didn’t vote for Obama because of his marketing campaign, I voted for him because he was the best option available. If the Republicans had selected a better candidate than Sen. McCain I might have voted for him. I didn’t oppose McCain; I thought age and temperament were worth considering, along with his choice of VP, and policy proposals and went with BO.

The hate’s not coming from me, Bubba.

This time around it’s looking like the GOP is going into meltdown mode, which frankly scares the poop out of me as a devout centrist. I’m going to pick up Fed Up here shortly, but from what little I’ve read of it through excerpts I think Rick Perry as President is not something I want to contemplate. And Romney’s out of touch-corporations are people? Corporate soul brother? M Yass. If there’s one thing about capitalism you need to know it’s that it has no soul. It’s just a gigantic threshing machine, and guess what people you’re the harvest.

I’ll grant you that it produces, but what it produces is ambiguous in nature. To not consider the flaws in the system, or attempt to mitigate them, are among the key reasons why I’m not supporting the GOP.

You may recall, eiioi, but not correctly if you voted for the corrupt, simpleton Bush a second time. I will never understand the Republican obsession with elevating the dumb and crazy to high office. I could actually vote for a serious, intelligent Republican candidate with a conscience but today’s GOP candidates, if not simple and nutty, had better act like it if they want to be elected.

You may recall, eiioi, but not correctly if you voted for the corrupt, simpleton Bush a second time. I will never understand the Republican obsession with elevating the dumb and crazy to high office.
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The party of SJL and Maxine Waters not to mention the guy that thought Guam was going to tip over shouldn’t be accusing anyone of promoting dumb people.

I agree that Perry instantly becomes the GOP front-runner. But, we’ve all seen the stats where Texas is the worst in:
-Percent of uninsured children
-Percent of population uninsured
-Amount of carbon dioxide emissions
-Amount of toxic chemicals released into water
-Amount of hazardous waste generated
-Number of executions
-Percent of population 25 and older with a high school diploma
-Per capita spending on mental health
-Percent of non-elderly women with health insurance
-Percent of women receiving prenatal care in first trimester
-Workers’ compensation coverage

If Perry becomes President, You Libs have nobody to blame but yourselves. It will be for the very same reason he stayed governor, he has an absolute idiot for an opponent. If you libs and socialist don’t replace Obama for your candidate, you are as stupid as he is.

A sitting President has never been seriously challenged for his party’s nomination and it won’t start now. Even if it did happen there would be almost no way for the replacement to win in the general. Maybe you knew that but I doubt it.

You need to stick to handling labs because you don’t even believe your own bull. When you say Obama is an idiot you know that he is one of the smartest Presidents we have ever had. Bachmann and Perry are actual idiots and you love them for it. If you really thought Obama was dense, you and your Conservative friends would be falling all over each other to vote for him. Nobody enjoys a good dummy more than Repuiblicans. You are fighting tooth and nail every day to elect the most obviously disturbed and dim-witted people you can find. And you do this with pride of purpose! So don’t talk about idiots unless you are willing to admit to your love affair with them.